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After months of surrealist palavers, the princes finally met last week in the capital city of Vientiane. But the meeting settled nothing, and more than ever the Three Princes recalled, in their operatic futility, the Three Ministers in Puccini's Turandot -Ping, Pong and Pang...
...reckoning, Communism and the Resistance movement were the major episodes in the education of France's brilliant Poet-Essayist-Novelist Louis Aragon, 63. Aragon was always in revolt; before he became a Communist in 1927, he was one of the daddies of Dadaism and switched later to the surrealist movement. As an underground fighter, he fought with conspicuous gallantry against the Nazis. After the war, Aragon became anchor man on the French Communists' intellectual first team. Unlike fellow Communist Jean Paul Sartre-who has often strayed off the Red reservation-Aragon has dutifully echoed the party line, served...
Conductor Antal Dorati faced 17 musicians wearing 18th century breeches, periwigs and white silk hose. On a balcony overhead. Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali abruptly appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that he spattered the astonished audience below. With a flourish, he ripped the canvas open-and out flew a dozen frightened homing pigeons, to flap about looking wildly for their cote...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum presents in its garden daily recorded music concerts, 1-2 p.m. Next week: Gluck's Orfeo, Milhaud's Sketches for Woodwinds (after Wateau), Duke's Surrealist Suite, MacDowell's Woodland Sketches (the last three works are related to art), Mozart's piano Concertos no. 21 and 27, and Rameau's Les indes galantes...
...Surrealist Poet André Breton, Moreau is "the great solitary of the Rue de La Rochefoucauld who carried farthest the power of evocation." U.S. Abstractionist Mark Tobey said of his work: "There are 200 years of painting here." Other observers might feel more inclined to agree with the art critic of Lettres Françaises: "I don't believe there is a public in 1961 that could lay claim to being drawn to this parade of dandies, she-animals, androgynes and all the comics of mythology. The form is thin, compromised by heavy preoccupation with detail. The landscapes...